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  title info:
    title: Complexity Hints for Economic Policy
  name:
    name part: Salzano, Massimo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Colander, David.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIII, 311 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume extends the complexity approach to economics. This complexity approach is not a completely new way of doing economics, and that it is a replacement for existing economics, but rather the integration of some new analytic and computational techniques into economists’ bag of tools. It provides some alternative pattern generators, which can supplement existing approaches by providing an alternative way of finding patterns than be obtained by the traditional scientific approach. On this new kind of policy hints can be obtained. The reason why the complexity approach is taking hold now in economics is because the computing technology has advanced. This advance allows consideration of analytical systems that could not previously be considered by economists. Consideration of these systems suggested that the results of the "control-based" models might not extend easily to more complicated systems, and that we now have a method—piggybacking computer assisted analysis onto analytic methods—to start generating patterns that might provide a supplement to the standard approach. It is that approach that we consider the complexity approach. The papers in this volume develop these ideas. In terms of policy the papers suggest that economists should become a bit less certain in their policy conclusions, and that they expand their bag of tools supplementing their standard model with some additional models including (1) agent based models, in which one does not use analytics to develop the pattern, but instead one uses computational power to deal with specification of models that are far beyond analytic solution; and (2) non-linear dynamic stochastic models many of which are beyond analytic solution, but whose nature can be discovered by a combination of analytics and computer simulations. The volume is divided into four sections: general issues, modeling issues, applications, and policy issues. Each struggles with complicated ideas related to our general theme, and a number…
  table of contents: General Issues -- Rationality, learning and complexity: from the Homo economicus to the Homo sapiens -- The Confused State of Complexity Economics: An Ontological Explanation -- Modeling Issues I: Modeling Economic Complexity -- The Complex Problem of Modeling Economic Complexity -- Visual Recurrence Analysis: Application to Economic Time series -- Complexity of Out-of-Equilibrium Play in Tax Evasion Game -- Modeling Issues II: Using Models from Physics to Understand EconomicPhenomena -- A New Stochastic Framework for Macroeconomics: Some Illustrative Examples -- Probability of Traffic Violations and Risk of Crime: A Model of Economic Agent Behavior -- Markov Nets and the NetLab Platform: Application to Continuous Double Auction -- Synchronization in Coupled and Free Chaotic Systems -- Agent Based Models -- Explaining Social and Economic Phenomena by Models with Low or Zero Cognition Agents -- Information and Cooperation in a Simulated Labor Market: A Computational Model for the Evolution of Workers and Firms -- Applications -- Income Inequality, Corruption, and the Non-Observed Economy: A Global Perspective -- Forecasting Inflation with Forecast Combinations: Using Neural Networks in Policy -- Policy Issues -- The Impossibility of an Effective Theory of Policy in a Complex Economy -- Implications of Scaling Laws for Policy-Makers -- Robust Control and Monetary Policy Delegation.
  note: by Massimo Salzano, David Colander.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Public finance
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Policy
  subject:
    topic: Public Economics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  classification: HD87-87.55
  classification: 338.9
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